Monday, July 23, 2012

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I've tried downloading all files twice, and extracting them repeatedly and I keep getting the same result, whenever I click on the extracted file I want (Word 2013.exe for example), I get an error box saying C:\Applications\Office 2013 Pro\Office 2013 Portable (Preview)\Word 2013.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

I've never had any problems with this windows XP install before either, it's great. So any ideas what I might try to do to remedy this?

Ahh, just figured out why it gives that "this is not a valid win32 application" error. It's because this version of office is ONLY supported on Windows 7 or newer. I thought I would reply/post in case anyone else is having these issues...

I think this version will work even after expiration date of preview version. Because I checked it on my laptop on host as well as guest operating system(Virtual Machine) by changing date to a later time than expiration date and works fine except asks activation at start but that doesn't matter just ignore it. lolx